E:This is borrowing
strength from another when too weak to be released from danger.

2 Yang:

L: Catching three foxes on a
hunt, having golden arrows, correctness brings good fortune.

E:Being firm yet
flexible, keeping to the center, one doesn’t let the human mind indulge wildly
or get injured by forcing its extinction. Going along with the desires of the
human mind to gradually guide it, one becomes effortlessly liberated from the
dangers of desire.

3 Yin:

L: Riding bearing a burden
causes enemies to arrive. Even being righteous one is humiliated.

E:Trying to force release
from danger when one is weak brings humiliation. It is beneficial to seek a
master of danger.

4 Yang:

L: Releasing your big toe,
when the companion comes, then trust.

E:This is strength (the
mind of Tao) being dragged down by weakness (the human mind), so not being
liberated from danger.

5 Yin:

L: In this the superior person
has liberation, which is fortunate; there is earnestness in regard to the
inferior person.

E:Only when the human
mind (yin pollution) has been thoroughly sublimated is the mind of Tao
released from difficulty.

6 Yin:

L: The prince shoots at a hawk
on a high wall and gets it, to the benefit of all.

E:This is great
impartiality (the mind of Tao) clearing away the greatest danger.